Since this is an edible crop, it is even more important to ensure that there is no contamination of non-GM crops.
The next time you buy a toy for your little one, be more cautious as a new study says many of them may contain a toxic chemical which can prove dangerous for children especially those below three years.
'Governments have neither any idea of the source of the infection, nor a grip on the disease.' 'Headline management will not work, not in this case,' observes Sunita Narain.
A study carried out by the Centre for Science and Environment has revealed the alarming fact that most of the popular brands of paints available in India contain high quantities of lead, a toxin especially dangerous for children.The CSE's Pollution Monitoring Laboratory tested these brands for their lead content over 2008 and 2009. It found that 72 per cent of the samples had lead much higher than the voluntary limit specified by the Bureau of Indian Standards.
The announcements made by the United States and China, ahead of the Copenhagen conference on Climate Change to be held in December, are 'sheer hype and hyperbole', according to the Centre for Science and Environment. The US spoke of an absolute emission reduction target of 17 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020, while China said it would reduce its energy intensity per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 40-45 per cent by 2020.
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has announced its first media fellowship for journalists of the South Asian region on climate change.
MAG was constituted by Department of Electronics and IT in February 2014.
The government on Monday banned use of potassium bromate as a food additive following a CSE study that found its presence in bread as causing cancer.
You need electricity, metallurgy, mechanics, propulsion etc. We don't see any evidence of these, Aniket Sule, Reader at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education said.
A number of cities, including Chennai, are water-scarce.
From SLAPPs to hiring professional protesters, industry's working overtime to find new ways to attack.
"Nargis is a sign of things to come. Last year, Bangladesh was devastated by the tropical cyclone Sidr," said Narain. "The victims of these cyclones are climate change victims and their plight should remind the rich world that it is doing too little to contain its greenhouse gas emissions," Sunita Narain, director, Centre for Science and Environment, said.
The Centre for Sciences and Environment (CSE) claimed in a study that the government's plans to introduce these cars without ensuring sufficiently stringent emission and safety standards would create environmental problems.The study also suggested that the government must guard against permitting these cars to run on diesel.
As people get rich, they end up losing the health advantage of food availability.
"We still believe that the government must agree on (fixing) the total amount of pesticide that should be in the soft drinks," Narayan said.
The issue of labelling pesticide content on soft drink bottles is pending in the Supreme Court.
Lok Sabha Deputy Leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra said Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss' reaction to the CSE study was highly condemnable as the minister said there was no need for an inquiry.
A new advertising code for the outdoor media in Delhi is on the cards. The advertising code, to be out by the end of the month, is being drafted by a two-member committee appointed by the Supreme Court of India.
Nearly 84 per cent of the commonly available bread forms contain cancer-causing chemicals.
'Over the past three years, the soft drink industry has been cooperating with the Union Health Ministry, Bureau of Indian Standards, the scientific community and NGOs to establish stringent science-based norms.'
Government said on Monday it was treating the issue of pesticides in soft drinks with 'utmost seriousness' and would take all steps to ensure the safety of consumers.
All five students are students of the Indian Institute of Technology.
The five were on Wednesday selected from 56 students, who came for a training camp at Homi Bhabha Centre in Mumbai.
The national capital is facing the worst smog in 17 years, the Centre for Science and Environment had said on Thursday.
In the dock over pesticides-in-cola controversy, Coca-Cola on Saturday questioned the credibility of the tests carried out by NGO Centre for Science and Environment, which claimed that soft drink products in India contained high levels of pesticides.
The Centre for Science and Environment on Wednesday came out with a fresh study claiming the presence of 'pesticide cocktail' in 11 brands of soft drink giants Coca Cola and PepsiCo.
A study by the Centre for Science and Environment, an NGO, has claimed that bottled soft drinks contain deadly pesticides.
Blood samples collected from four villages in Punjab showed 15 to 605 times higher residues, as compared to samples of people in the United States, of certain persistent organochlorine pesticides.
Do you agree with our lawmakers that consuming cola is nothing short of slow poisoning?
Pratmesh Prabhu also did well at the IIT-JEE.
'And for the developing lungs of our children, this should not be tolerated. Not at all,' says Sunita Narain.
The JPC on soft drinks has upheld findings of CSE that 12 branded products of Pepsi and Coca-Cola it examined did contain pesticide residues and asked the government to formulate stringent quality norms for carbonated drinks.
